February in New York City, and Startup Updates
Here is what is happening in New York City in February 2025. These are my notes of things to do and places to eat in NYC, travel post I made and our startup update for January.
Happy New Year! I wish everyone a healthy and successful year! Here are what I have compiled for myself, my to do list for New York City for this cold February. This month will be heavily influeced by Valentines Day. Hope you enjoy!
Restaurants and Things To Do
Things To Do:
Pink Pier | Pier 15 Seaport, Manhattan | All Month
Bumper Cars on Ice | Bryant Park | All Month
Squid Game The Experience | Koreatown, Manhattan | All Month
Curling at Edge | Hudson Yards, Manhattan | All Month
Luminosa: A Festival of Lights | Queens Botanical Garden | February Wednesday - Sunday
Runway Chalet | TWA Hotel, Queens | All Month
Bombolone Festival | Essex Market | Feb 8th
Valentines Day
UpDating | City Winery, Manhattan | February 14th
Magic: Distilled Presents “Love Potion” | Great Jones Distiling Co., Manhattan | February 14th
Valentines’s Day Concert | Smoke Jazz Club, Manhattan | February 12th - 16th
Cupid’s Undie Run | The DL, Manhattan | Febrary 8th
Ask a Fuckboy | Caveat, Manhattan | February 15th
Valentine’s Party | At Music For A While | February 15th
Lunge Valentine’s Day Singles Mixer | Somewhere Nowhere | February 14th
The Orchid Show | New York Botanical Garden | Feb 15th - April 27th
Winter Dance at The Lodge | Bryant Park Ice Skating Ring, Manhattan | January 15th - February 19th
Lunar New Year Parade | Chinatown, Manhattan | Feb 16th
Carnevale Festa | Eataly Downtown, Manhattan | February 21st
Black History Month
UCBLK | Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre | February 28th
Drunk Black History | Littefield | February 28th
Super Bowl Watch Party
Houston Hall | West Village, Manhattan
The Long Room | Midtown, Manhattan
La Vibra | Flatiron, Manhattan
San Antonios | Lower East Side, Manhattan
The Bowery Beer Garden | Chinatown, Manhattan
Clinton Hall | Midtown, Manhattan
The Upstairs at 66 Game Room | Financial District, Manhattan
230 Fifth Rooftop Bar | Midtown, Manhattan
Stout NYC | Manhattan
The Bowery Beer Garden | Chinatown, Manhattan
Delicous Restaurants:
Fiaschetteria Pistoia | East Village, New York | Trip Advisor: 4.5/5.0 - A great place to get authentic Italian food with friendly Italian staff. The vibe is upscale casual, (if thats a thing) with Tuscan ques.
Campagnola Restaurant | Upper East Side, New York | Yelp: 4.7/5.0 - A cozy upscale Italian Restaurant. Defiently worth visiting!
12 Chairs Cafe | SoHo, New York | Yelp: 4.0/5.0 - Great spot for some Middle Eastern bites.
Bars with the vibe:
Ray’s | The Bowery, New York - A Zachary recommend! Great place to meet people and is fairly busy!
SmallsLive Jazz Club | West Village, New York - A cozy spot to get good drinks and listen to live music.
The Highlight Room | The Bowery - A rooftop bar with an impressive view! Check out a friend, EJtheDJ, to see when he performs there!
Other interesting spots:
Comedy Cellar | Greenwich, New York - One of the many great comedy spots in the city.
Travel
I have really enjoyed the substack platform so far and have decided to move travel to its own once-weekly travel notes post. I am currently working through Italian Cities, but there will be more to follow. Here are my latest post;
Picsplore Social
Picsplore is our attempt at providing an easy-to-use solution that allows a user to quickly see which of their friends are nearby and want to hang out and post a beacon that shares roughly what time and where they are thinking of hanging out. We believe the more casual and easy it is to hang out with friends, the more often it will happen. Life is short, so we might as well fill it up with real-life experiences.
This is my second such update, mostly for me, but maybe also for you if you’re interested! With these updates, I am hoping to capture thoughts and experiences I have while working towards our updated Picsplore update.
For January,
We have continued to apply to more Accelerators, some of whom we have started to talk to. This is exciting, but we don’t see any acceptance coming our way.
Brian (graphic designer) has been working hard to get the wireframes over to us. He has delivered 70 percent of what is needed for the MVP.
Continued to Survey, Interview, and practice the pitch of the idea of Picsplore.
Personal Updates
There is not much of an update here in terms of personal updates for Zachary and me. We have continued to look at expanding our network. We are steadily working towards our goal of getting our Minimum Viable Version of Picsplore in front of users so we can start getting feedback.
Thank you so much for following along, and if you want to reach me, my email is thomasmjumper@gmail.com.